CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 4 March 2011

4 March 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Bentley Acquires SACS, Leading Software for Offshore Structure Analysis
  

CIMdata News

• CIMdata Inc. Announces Next European PLM Certificate Program
  
• “PLM & System Overlaps” by CIMdata’s President Peter Bilello
• Selerant Continues to Accelerate (Commentary)
  

Company News

• Altium Sponsors ‘Part-Time Scientists’ on their Way to the Moon
  
• Autodesk Platinum Club Recognizes Outstanding Partners for Fiscal Year 2011
• Autodesk Unveils New Book That Explores the Changing World of Design at TED2011
  
• Boeing and Eurostep Release Joint Report - A New Approach to PLCS Web Services
  
• Design Engineers Worldwide Compete in 2011 'Create the Future' Contest
  
• FIRST® and PTC® Expand Collaboration to Bring FIRST ® Tech Challenge to India, China and Eastern Europe
• Helping Prepare Rwanda’s Students for the Future with SolidWorks
  
• PLM Elite: New Partner-Network for PDM/PLM-Solutions
• RAND Worldwide Earns John Deere "Partner-Level Supplier" Award
  
• Synopsys and Xilinx Collaborate on the Industry's First Methodology Manual for FPGA-Based Prototyping of SoC Design
• 3Dconnexion Achieves One Million 3D Mouse Milestone

Events News

• Aras Announces Aras Community Event 2011 China and Korea
• Attend Mercury PLM Services Information Exchange on April 14, 2011
  
• AVEVA Showcases Laser Products at SPAR 2011
• Call for Papers: COMSOL Conference 2011 Boston
  
• CAM Logic Offers Siemens Solid Edge Fundamentals Training
• CENIT to Present at PLM 2011 Conference in Orlando on SAP PLM 7 Implementation Strategies
• CimatronE New Version on Show at INTEC
• Daimler, Renault and Fraunhofer LBF Deliver Keynotes at the 2011 LMS European Vehicle Conference
  
• Delcam Italia to Show Complete CAM Range at Eurostampi
• Geometric to Showcase the New Features of CAMWorks® 2011 at AeroDef
  
• Hankook Delcam to be Biggest CAM Supplier at 20th Anniversary Intermold
  
• Omnify Software Showcases Empower PLM at 2011 Medical Devices Summit
• SolidProfessor Releases Hands-On Case Studies
• UK Trade Minister, Lord Green, Visits Delcam
  

Financial News

• aPriori Completes the Most Successful Quarter in Company History
• Bentley Holds First Annual Corporate Update Conference Call to Announce Performance Highlights for 2010 and Important New Initiatives
  
• Oracle Sets the Date for its Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2011 Earnings Announcement
• Pilgrim Software Receives Strategic Investment from Riverside Partners, a Leading Healthcare and Technology Equity Firm
  

Implementation Investments

• Aston Martin Racing Selects PTC® Creo™ Elements/Pro™ And Windchill® To Design And Manage Development Of Next Generation Vehicles
• Canadian Department of National Defence Selects Anark Software for Defence Network
• Catalog Data Solutions Catalog and CAD Download Solution Implemented by Magnet-Schultz America
• China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. Selects Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise
  
• Delcam’s PartMaker Cuts Programming and Set-Up Times
• Dynisco Chooses DFMA Software from Boothroyd Dewhurst
• IBM Helps Dassault Aviation Preserve Critical 3D Design Data for the Falcon Aircraft
• Mentor Graphics and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Extend RET and OPC Collaboration to 28nm
  
• New Shanghai HuaLi Foundry Chooses the Mentor Graphics Calibre RET Solution for 65/45nm Development and Production
• NSF-Funded Antenna Project at Gonzaga University Relies on ANSYS
• PTC Signs Cooperation Agreement for The Development of Mold Design and Manufacturing Teaching Resources Library With High Vocational Education of MOE
  
• Siemens PLM Software Surpasses 3.5 Million Active End-User Seats of Software Based on Parasolid
• Students of Bauman Moscow State Technical University Will Use AxSTREAM to Learn and Practice Turbomachinery Design
• Vodafone McLaren Mercedes to Deploy Dassault Systèmes V6 Solution
• Wood Group Uses SolidWorks to Pack Durability and Performance into Slender, Submersible Pumps
• World Famous Holmenkollen Ski Jump Modeled With Tekla BIM Software
  
• Zollner Elektronik AG Standardizes on Siemens PLM Software’s Tecnomatix Digital Manufacturing Solution
  
  

Product News

• Altium Announces Altium Designer 10, AltiumLive, Altium Vaults
  
• AspenTech Releases New Local Language Versions of Products in aspenONE® Manufacturing & Supply Chain Suite
• Bentley Advances Sustainable Licensing Through Portfolio Balancing
• Bentley Launches New iWare Apps Site Providing Fast, Easy Access to No-Cost Software for Interoperability
  
• Cadence Opens and Extends Verification IP Catalog for Use across Silicon, SoC and System Development
• Centric Software Introduces Quality Module
• ELYSIUM to Release ASFALIS K2 for Smooth Circulation of 3D Data
  
• Extensible CAD Technologies Announces Release of InspectionXpert for Pro/ENGINEER
• FCC Approval of Finite Element Method for Biomedical Transmitters Puts ANSYS Software in the Spotlight
  
• Introducing STAR-CCM+ v6.02: Engineering Success at your Fingertips
• IronCAD, LLC Releases Product Update #1 for the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2011
  
• Magma's Titan and FineSim Validated for LFoundry Interoperable Process Design Kits (iPDKs), Accelerating Turnaround Time for Analog/Mixed-Signal SoCs
• Mentor Graphics Transforms SoC Integration and Functional Verification with Next Generation Questa Platform
• OpenText Brings Windows and UNIX Enterprise Business Applications to Mac OS X with Release of Exceed onDemand 8
  
• Raytion Expands its Family of Enterprise Search Connectors
• SURFCAM V5.2 Beta Released
  
• Synopsys Announces Availability of HAPS-600 High Capacity FPGA-Based Prototyping Solution
• Synopsys Introduces Proteus LRC for Lithography Verification
  
• Synopsys DesignWare IP First to Support Final Release of PCI Express 3.0 Specification
• Tech Soft 3D Launches HOOPS 3D Exchange v4.0

CIMdata Online Polls

CIMdata is now featuring online polls with real time reporting on our web site at http://www.cimdata.com/polls/polls.html. Each week the results of the previous poll will be included in the CIMdata PLM Industry Summary to help you stay on top of trends in the PLM industry.

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The results for the last opinion poll are:

It is very encouraging to see that of those companies who responded the majority (over 63%) execute over 75% of their designs in 3D CAD. However, there are still a substantial number of technological followers: fully 18% of respondents still work mostly in 2D. Certainly, 2D is appropriate for some product design work, such as simple turned parts. However, when these parts are used in more complex assemblies and products it remains preferable to design them in 3D so that they can be analyzed for things such as weight and clash.

The results on the question of master data are interesting from the standpoint that clearly companies are moving away from drawings as the master. This shows a maturing process where 3D is used for design and then maintained as the master that supports future work. 60% of respondents now use 3D as the master or as the master along with a drawing derived from 3D. Of the 39% who continue to use drawings as the master, one has to wonder how many are required to do so by some regulatory organization (such as US FDA) and how many do this to satisfy their company's historical practices.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
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